Many things these days are taken for granted and used with great liberty, but none more prevalent than the consumption of petroleum based fossil fuels worldwide. As stated in The International Energy Outlook 2006 (Energy Information Administration, 2006a), "World oil consumption rose by about 1.2 million barrels per day in 2005, after an increase of 2.6 million barrels per day in 2004". Current projections indicate increasing demand for oil by the transportation sector, where there is currently not a viable replacement for petroleum, despite emerging technologies entering the marketplace. Case study projections over the 2003 to 2030 period show one-half of the increase in demand originating from the transportation sector. (Energy Information Administration, 2006b) While there are few competitive options to petroleum for the transportation segment, renewable alternative energy resources do exist to lessen the reliance on fossil fuels in other sectors. Resources such as biomass, geothermal, hydroelectric, wind, and solar all do their respective parts to lessen the world's reliance on fossil fuels. It is the latter; however, that has the greatest potential for implementation and acceptance, solar, with its ease of installation, low footprint, net metering (selling electricity back to the utilities), government incentives, and high return on investment. Despite this solar energy, both thermal and photovoltaic, have yet to see widespread use. The reluctance towards solar energy has been more out of mind-set than any other cause, the mind-set that "someone should do something" but just not themselves or the more common "it is not my problem; the world won't run out of resources in my lifetime"; which society, as a whole, deems an acceptable risk. While it is probable that the world most likely will not run out of resources in the next one hundred years this should not stop conservation efforts and endeavors to integrate renewable energy resources into daily life, more...

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You are asked to design an energy strategy to be implemented over the next 25 years.
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Natural gas: 41%
Coal: 29%
Nuclear: 18%
Renewables: 9%
Other: 2%.
(￼Department of energy and climate change, 2013)
The UK seeks to achieve in 2020 the share of renewableenergy that has been set by the Climate and Energy Package (an action plan adopted on 23 January 2008 by the European Commission), while meeting its energy demand, while some plants reach the end of life. The energy companies are thus committed heavily in the gas, but also (to a lesser extent) in nuclear power. The financing of renewableenergy such as offshore wind, however, is not enough.
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Conserving Energy to Save Money
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...emissions is using renewableenergy to replace fossil fuel. In addition, renewableenergy is generated by natural resources such as sunlight, wind and biomass which produce less or no pollution when generate energy. Furthermore, renewableenergy will be demanded for approximately half of the worldwide electricity supplies to reduce CO2 emissions by 2050, which it is estimated by The International Energy Agency (Cited in Shi 2010).
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Solar Energy
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Energy is an important thing in our everyday live. It is known as an ability to do works. Energy came from many resources .They are two group of energy that we ought to know which are renewableenergy and non-renewableenergy. Through this essay we will learn more about energy in our dailylive.
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...time now, nations around the world have often relied on coal, oil, and natural gas to supply their energy needs. Unfortunately, the dependence on fossil fuels has created a serious issue. Fossil fuels are a limited resource and eventually will deplete or become too expensive to find those that remain. These fuels also cause pollution and give off greenhouse gases that shape global warming. Nonetheless, there is an alternative way to protect our natural resources. So what is renewableenergy? Renewableenergy is energy that stems from our planet’s biological resources and is a crucial part to the development of the environment. This energy includes solar, wind, hydro, geothermal heat, and biomass. Solar energy generates electricity through natural sunlight. Wind results from air currents that spin wind turbines to generate power. Hydro energy is falling or flowing water that generates water turbines for power as well. Geothermal is the force produced by heat from geysers located inside the Earth’s core. Lastly, biomass is energy made from wood, animal or other organic wastes and methane gas in landfills. These resources are significant because they do not contaminate the atmosphere with carbon-based agents. Utilizing these natural resources initially may not be cost effective, although using harmful resources would prove to...

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Project Report
RenewableEnergy
A Project Report
Presented to the faculty of the
School of Management & Entrepreneurship
Auro University, Surat.
Submitted to:
Mr. Kamlesh Mishra
Submitted By:
Vrushil Savani
TABLE OF CONTENT
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
I take this opportunity to express my profound gratitude and deep regards to my guide Mr. Kamlesh Mishra for his typical guidance, nursing and continuous inspiration throughout the course of this report. The dedication, assistance and direction given by her time to time shall carry me a long way in the journey of life on which I am about to embark.
I also take this opportunity to express a deep sense of appreciation of food & beverage industry of India cordial support, valuable information and guidance, which helped me in completing this task through various stages.
Lastly, I am obliged to my mates for the valuable information provided by them in making my report for their constant encouragement without which this assignment would not be possible.
Vrushil Savani
INTRODUCTION
DEFINITION OF RENEWABLEENERGY:
A renewable source is forever there plus will never track out. It saves renewing the place.
Still since 1973 oil calamities, many nations have defensibly maintained an remaining attention in renewableenergy bases and as a result numerous...